Someone suggested plastic shed with everything locked together. How about a trailer in the parking lot?
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Someone suggested plastic shed with everything locked together. How about a trailer in the parking lot?
In my college days, we'd fit a bike above any couch. Wheels on a mini tray against the wall, and a hook on a strap to the top tube. The bike leans out a little bit, but doesn't really interfere with the use of the couch at all. And it qualifies as "art."
Likely cheaper than purchasing a 2x4 and bike hooks from Home Depot...
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Todeco-Bi...Pack/706456212
https://verniershop.com/products/bik...CABEgKZPfD_BwEQuote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
This looks like a more dressed up version of that.
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An even more dressed up version:Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
https://ride.lezyne.com/products/stainless-pedal-hook
I actually have a few sets of these that I'm happy to re-home to a mag in need for the cost of shipping and a coffee.Attachment 448796
Pintrest has a lot of good ideas, start search with "bike storage." The most interesting approach is where someone says treat bikes as "suspended wall art."
Also, plug this into a google search: "site:apartmenttherapy.com bike storage"
If you're considering a MTB then you'll always have to contend with mud, grit and dirt falling off onto your floors and marking up the walls and any other surface the bike might touch when you bring it into and take it out of the living space. Spoken from past experience.
Is Steadyrack worth the extra $$ over something like this: https://www.feedbacksports.com/product/velo-hinge/ ?Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
Moved into a new place with a one car garage that will be used for gear storage/workshop/home gym. One piece of the puzzle is bike storage, figured a 2x4 with a bunch of hooks or Steadyrack to stagger the bikes would be space optimal. So far have 1 mtb, 2 road, 1 commuter, 1 kids 16in and 1 kids 12in strider. Expecting another adult mtb and kids bike collection will grow over time but for next few years kids bikes will just stay on the ground for easy access.
SteadyRack is a completely different experience. For starters, it's so much easer to get bike in and out of it: Pull bike into wheelie, roll toward tray, give a little push over the rise, and you're done. Pulling it out is the same. Compare that to a hook where you have to pick up the whole bike, then whichever hand is partially free, you frigg around with the wheel until it's lined up just right with the spokes. Somehow reversing the process is even harder as the spokes are like magnet for whatever hooky edge can catch on. For me it's a game changer in luxury. Like changing from a rooftop bike tray to a 1up hitch rack. For my wife it's the difference between always using it versus never using it. Same as it was with the car rack scenario.Quote:
Originally Posted by gramboh
Being able to turn them back and forth like pages in a book makes every bike easy to use. Other methods can cram more bikes in a smaller space, but most of the bikes better be in deep freeze because they get inaccessible behind the tangle.
I'm not even using them now, since my current basement is massive. Got 6 of them sitting on the shelf waiting to be used again.
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This makes me feel incredibly coordinated because I find hooks to be easy and painless. I see no reason to spend more than $40 for a bike hanging solution (which covers a bunch of hooks and a couple 2 x 6's).Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
The trick is just to place them at the right height. Wheelie bike. Knee on seat. Lift bike 3". Turn wheel a little to make it go on hook. Even my wife can do it.
Hey, if it works for you that's fantastic. I'm sure some people love their roof mount racks as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
How does your wife do with getting her ebike up into the hook? Mine's lost a lot of brute strength in the last decade(s), and now has no patience either.
She's fine with hoisting the ebike, although she doesn't ride that thing very much. Like I said, the key is just making it so the hooks are at the right height so it's not much of a lift. I mounted the 2x6 at a slight angle so different hooks are at different heights. Bigger bikes go at the taller end, shorter bikes at the shorter end, and all of them are pretty close to the ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
I definitely don't love my roof rack. I dislike it slightly less than having a hitch rack on my car though.
Good points guys. Wife acceptance factor is a big one here. Really it will be for her commuter/gravel type bike which isn't that light. She's strong enough to boost it up onto a hook but I have a feeling she will end up just wheeling it into garage and leaning it on something and I'll be the one putting it away when I want the space... not a big deal but something to consider.
I have ceiling hooks to keep them clear of the car. Hooks are in the ceiling roughly a foot from the wall so when the bike hangs, the wheels both rest on the garage wall...but that does create a problem for the wife.
I think she is capable via wheelieing and then rolling the bike up the wall and hooking it...but she can't do that if my car is actually in the garage. I am able to just lift her bike in the air, turn it flat, and carry it out over the car, but I'm taller and stronger than she is. Luckily she doesn't really ride unless I'm also riding so it doesn't create problems.
The oversize Park hooks are worth the extra couple of bucks. Bigger than the hardware store hooks so they fit big MTB tires fine without fiddling (I don't have the big fat bike hooks, just the MTB version) and higher quality plasti-dip.
Regarding the small apartment aspect of this thread, I previously used a setup I built from an Ikea closet tension rod:
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Kept them out of the way. With a little adjustment, you can have a third bike on the ground leaning against the bottom bike although that starts to take up more floor space/look worse/makes it hard to get the bottom bike.
Doesn't work as well with modern MTBs without playing a bunch of games with how you set up the hooks. Even most modern road geometry leaves you with bikes at a funny angle if you can't offset the hooks.
Bump.
I have the opposite problem as a lot of folks here. I have plenty of floor space, but limited wall space due to a window being in the way.
Good solutions to organize 3-4 mountain bikes so that one can easily pull out the bike of choice without the others being in the way? Holds bike horizontally (wheels on the ground), wall mounted or heavy enough to not move around, DIY or doesn't cost several hundreds of dollars would be ideal.